Lao'damas
3. A son of Eteocles, and kin- of Thebes: in his youth he had been under the guardianship of Creon. (
Paus. 1.39.2.)
It was in his reign that the Epigoni marched against Thebes. Laodamas offered them a battle on the river Glisas, and slew their leader Aegialeus, but he himself was killed by Alcmaeon. (
Apollod. 3.7.3.) Others related, that after the battle was lost, Laodamas fled in the night with the remnant of his army, and took refuge in the territory of the Encheleans in Illyricum. (
Paus. 9.5.7;
Hdt. 5.61.)
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